Serial name changer gets 27 months in prison.

His name is Leon Letroy Anderson, but you may have known him, albeit briefly, by any of a dozen other names.

He played the “Name Game,” but the fun is over. He was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay about $100,000 in restitution for bank fraud.

Anderson, 33, of Tacoma, legally changed his name a dozen times over eight years. Each time, he got a new driver’s license and used it and a false Social Security number to open a bank account, court documents say.

He would inflate the account by depositing checks written from an account in his former name. Before those checks would clear, he would buy something or withdraw cash before the checks were discovered to be worthless.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says he defrauded 71 victims out of about $100,000.

The game was up for Anderson on May 29, 2008, when workers at a gas station spotted him and an accomplice, who had written bad checks there. The workers alerted police.